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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'll give a slightly different perspective, OP. A friend was raised by a lapsed Catholic family and never learned a thing about religions. [b]We both agree that each person should make a personal choice about religion, but friend will say that being raised with no exposure effectively took that choice away from him.[/b] He feels that as an adult it is now a bridge too far.

So he feels that the children should be raised in a faith and attend religious education, so that when they reach the age of confirmation and ultimately adulthood, the choice is 100% their to make with sufficient knowledge to guide their decision of faith. In the end, if they decline to practice a faith, they still have a decent knowledge of biblical literature, which is a great education in and of itself, and can also contribute to discussions and debates about religion in a meaningful way. This friend always feels lost in such discussions because he is smart enough to realize that he doesn't quite understands what people are talking about.[/quote]

Statistically speaking, he is correct.  A person raised with no religion will not "decide for himself."  He will do nothing, because that is what he was raised with.

Part of why I've raised my kids with religion is to give them a grounding in a faith-based view of the world.  If they reject it later, or choose something else (whether that something is another religion, or nothing), then it will be on the basis of knowing what it is, and not based on ignorance.[/quote]

Where are the statistics you reference -- I've never heard anything like this.   From what I've observed (no stats available) people move in and out of religion irrespective of what they were raised with.

And what is a "faith-based view of the world" given there are so many faiths?  Some are very mild - teaching of a kind and loving Jesus. - Others are harsh and punitive, enforcing belief with threats of eternal suffering.  Do you mean faith based as opposed to fact-based?  Or in addition to fact based?[/quote]

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